Those two days— May 24–25, 1991— when in total secrecy and silence, 14,500 Ethiopian Jews were rescued and brought to Israel.
“W hy do you have tears in your eyes?” my student asked in Hebrew.
“Because I remember that day, that day you came on aliyah.”
“I don’t remember it,” she laughed, “because I was only a few months old. But my parents do, of course. It was the first time they had ever been on an airplane. It was the first time they had ever seen an airplane.”
I was too emotional to remind her to speak not in Hebrew, but in English, as I usually do in the course I give on English for Professional Purposes to Dental Hygiene students.
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